Simon & Schuster Ltd Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company Export/Airside

*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** * WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2025 FOR BUSINESS REPORTING * Absolutely riveting Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads Disturbing and enlightening Chris Miller, author of Chip War Hugely important Rana Foroohar, author of Makers and Takers A once-in-a-generation read Robert D. Kaplan, author of Waste Land As Trump wages a tariff war with China, seeking to boost domestic electronics manufacturing, this book offers an unparalleled insight into why his strategy is embarrassingly naïve. Apple isnt just a brand; its the worlds most valuable company and creator of the 21st centurys defining product. The iPhone has revolutionized the way we live, work and connect. But Apple is now a victim of its own success, caught in the middle of a new Cold War between two superpowers. On the brink of bankruptcy in 1996, Apple adopted an outsourcing strategy. By 2003 it was lured to China by the promise of affordable, ubiquitous labour. As the iPod and iPhone transformed Apples fortunes, their sophisticated production played a seminal role in financing, training, supervising and supplying Chinese manufacturers skills Beijing is now weaponizing against the West. Investigative journalist Patrick McGee draws on 200 interviews with former Apple executives and engineers to reveal how Cupertinos choice to anchor its supply chain in China has increasingly made it vulnerable to the regimes whims. Both an insiders historical account and a cautionary tale, Apple in China is the first history of Apple to go beyond the biographies of its top executives and set the iPhones global domination within an increasingly fraught geopolitical context. Autorid: Patrick McGee